Graham Greene: Citáty anglicky

Graham Greene byl anglický spisovatel, dramatik a literární kritik. Citáty anglicky.
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“Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.”

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Graham Greene

Zdroj: Travels With My Aunt

“Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Heart of the Matter

Zdroj: The Heart of the Matter

“And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Power and the Glory

Zdroj: The Power and the Glory

“I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.”

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“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Power and the Glory

Pt. I, ch. 1
The Power and the Glory (1940)

“My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Heart of the Matter

Zdroj: The Heart of the Matter

“You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Power and the Glory

Zdroj: The Power and the Glory

“The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Power and the Glory

Zdroj: The Power and the Glory

“From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year… death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Quiet American

Zdroj: The Quiet American

“I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.”

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“Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?”

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Graham Greene kniha The Quiet American

Zdroj: The Quiet American

“As long as one suffers one lives.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Bk. 5, ch. 1
Zdroj: The End of the Affair (1951)

“There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Heart of the Matter

Zdroj: The Heart of the Matter

“Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Varianta: Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.
Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Comedians

Zdroj: The Comedians (1966)